Universal Theatrical Group News

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top news: readings of new shows BREAD AND ROSES and CHRISTMAS IN HELL, a holiday concert featuring Robert Creighton and FROZEN co-stars, as well as one featuring Frenchie Davis, and more!

Kristin Chenoweth might be heading back to Broadway! BroadwayWorld has just learned that Universal Theatrical Group (UTG) is developing a new stage adaptation of Death Becomes Her, starring the Emmy and Tony Award-winner as Madeline (played on screen by Meryl Streep).

The 2017/18 season of world-class dance, music and theater continues as the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (The Wallis) presents its third annual Winter @ The Wallis series. This year, Winter @ The Wallis programming grows to eighteen events to be performed in the Bram Goldsmith Theater and the intimate Lovelace Studio Theater, beginning on Saturday, January 6 with the classical music duo, violinist Sarah Chang and pianist Julio Elizalde. Other highlights include: The Wallis debut of the L.A.-based dance company Lula Washington Dance Theatre; a weekend celebrating the great jazz legend Arturo Sandoval along with other local jazz artists; the modern music collective wild Up under the baton of founder Christopher Rountree; the return of the innovative United Kingdom-based theater company Kneehigh with The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk; and the world premiere of Tom Dugan's Jackie Unveiled.

Vincent Rodriguez III, star of CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , and composer/lyricist Drew Gasparini will teach a master class titled Performance and Business Empowerment for Artists today, December 5th at 3pm in New York City. Registration is now open!

Aspiring musical theatre composers have the chance of a lifetime to work on their creation with Oscar-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz at one of the upcoming 2018 ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Workshops.

Vincent Rodriguez III, star of CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , and composer/lyricist Drew Gasparini will teach a master class titled Performance and Business Empowerment for Artists on Tuesday, December 5th at 3pm in New York City. Registration is now open!

Universal Theatrical Group (UTG), Universal Pictures' live theatre division, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Barry Gibb, Yvonne Gibb, and the Estate of Robin Gibb to develop a biographical stage musical based on the life story and music of the Bee Gees.

The new musical October Sky, inspired by the Universal Pictures film and 'Rocket Boys' by Homer H. Hickam Jr. will receive a developmental lab from November 9-November 10, 2017 in New York City.

It has just been announced that the new musical October Sky, inspired by the Universal Pictures film and "Rocket Boys" by Homer H. Hickam Jr. will receive a developmental lab from October 23-November 10, 2017 in New York City.